Get Your Beauty Rest With Fitbit 'Sleep Schedule'

The new tool works with all Fitbit devices that automatically track sleep.

Everyone needs their beauty rest, and Fitbit wants to ensure you get it with a set of tools to help users improve their sleep patterns and overall health.

A number of the company's wearables already track sleep, offering users a glimpse into their nightly routine: total time asleep, awake, restless, and awake/restless. The new Sleep Schedule feature, however, helps guide new and existing owners to more consistent slumber via personalized goals based on your sleep data, customized bedtime and wake-up targets, reminders to stay on schedule, and a sleep history to chart progress. In the Fitbit app, just navigate to the Sleep dashboard.

"If you're constantly changing your sleep routine, it can have the same effect as giving yourself jetlag because you are continually changing your circadian rhythm, also known as your internal clock, which can negatively impact your health and wellness," Michael Grandner, director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona, explained on behalf of Fitbit.

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Citing various reports, Fitbit suggested that getting enough sleep can do more than fight disease and boost mental health: It also impacts how you exercise, recover after training, and lose weight. (That is, folks who sleep an average seven to nine hours a night have a lower body mass index than those who get three to four hours nightly.)

"What's great about the new Fitbit Sleep Schedule feature is that it looks at your sleep data from your Fitbit device you're wearing day and night, analyzes it for patterns and creates a personalized schedule just for you," said Tim Roberts, executive vice president of Interactive at Fitbit.

These tools are the first in a series of sleep features under development by experts including Grandner; Allison Siebern, consulting assistant professor at Stanford University Sleep Medicine Center; and Michael Smith, professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Nursing at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.